“Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing, after all.”

“The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world.”

— Oscar Wilde《The Picture of Dorian Gray》

“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”

— Oscar Wilde《The Picture of Dorian Gray》

“Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.”

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》

“To a woman indifferent to love, every man is the same, and all are men; but to her whose heart is truly susceptible of that refined passion, there is no other man in the world but her lover.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau《Eloisa: or, A series of original letters》

“Herein doth consist happiness of life, for a man to know thoroughly the true nature of everything; what is the matter, and what is the form of it: with all his heart and soul, ever to do that which is just, and to speak the truth.”

— Marcus Aurelius《Meditations》

“One may smile, and smile, and be a villain!”

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》

“The position, as it would appear to a plain person of ordinary common sense, is that a woman who is legally married to one man and is living as the wife of another, is a married woman who is living with a man who is not her husband.”

— R. Austin Freeman《Helen Vardon's confession》

“To people of her blood, liberty is everything, and they would set a town on fire to save themselves one day in prison.”

— Prosper Mérimée《Carmen》

“All men live enveloped in whale-lines.”

— Herman Melville《Moby-Dick》

“The man with the book was not reading aloud, and no one spoke; all seemed to be waiting for something to occur; the dead man only was without expectation.”

— Ambrose Bierce《The Damned Thing》

“It is now becoming obscured by time; and thousands, who know that Montcalm died like a hero on the plains of Abraham, have yet to learn how much he was deficient in that moral courage without which no man can be truly great.”

— James Fenimore Cooper《The Last of the Mohicans》

“But when these sort of men are so unwelcome to others, as that the very sight of them is thought ominous, I yet make them highly in love with themselves, and fond admirers of their own happiness.”

— Erasmus《In Praise of Folly》